Hello! I am Amy Koshoffer, the new UC Libraries Science Informationist.
I am one member of a team of informationists working to provide research data services and instruction to the UC research community. My primary focus will be on researchers in Engineering and the Sciences, including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Geography, Mathematics, and Physics. The informationist team includes others based in the Health Sciences Library (East Campus), including Tiffany Grant, a Research Informationist who is focusing on services to biomedical researchers.
Heather Maloney, Library Director: On vacation….anywhere.
Michelle McKinney, Reference/Web Services Librarian: I like to read in bed or in my favorite lounge chair.
Kellie Tilton, Instructional Technologies Librarian: I prefer to read on vacation (a random dream vacation is one dedicated JUST to reading), but more often than not, I read in bed.
Lauren Wahman, Instruction Librarian: Vacation, couch, bed…just about anywhere except the car.
Rachel Lewis, Technical Services Manager: No favorite place, but I tend to read in my bed before I fall asleep.
Tammy Manger, Public Services Manager: I like to read in bed. That’s why I can’t make it through more than two pages.
Chris Marshall, Public Services Assistant: Poolside in the summer is the best!
We received an addition to the William A. Altemeier, MD collection from Dr. Altemeier’s son, William Altemeier III, MD, at the beginning of February. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, Dr. Altemeier is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Altemeier became the Christian R. Holmes Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery in 1952 and served in that position for twenty-six years. His surgical expertise and research led to hundreds of publications on surgical infections and he counted the over one-hundred chief residents which he trained during his tenure with UC as his greatest contribution to medicine.
For the 2014-15 academic year, the days on which we hold the presentations will vary but will always be at noon. Other slated talks are: Winona Hawthorne, class of 1878, the first female graduate of the University of Cincinnati; The British Enlightenment; Saint Paul and the Bible; Irish Poets and the Great War (this topic is a presentation marking the centennial of the war. ARB exhibits of “UC during World War I” and “The City of Cincinnati and the Great War” will be mounted as well); The McNamara Brothers: Cincinnati Labor Radicals and the 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times; Global Efforts in Developing Reading and Libraries; And more! Please join us in August and the following months throughout fall and spring semesters. 
The University of Cincinnati Libraries have created a website and digital archive that provides access to the historic Cincinnati subway and street images, a collection of over 8,000 photographic negatives and prints taken as part of a failed subway development project in the 1920s, and photographs documenting various street projects from the 1930s through the 1950s.